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Friday, 31 July 2015

Towers of Midnight, the second to last book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, is brimming over with amazing moments, from Perrin’s battles with Slayer, Egwene’s machinations in the Tower, Rand’s defense of Maradon, the forging of Perrin’s hammer, Mat’s rescue of Moiraine, and onwar

Thursday, 30 July 2015

CBM has gotten a hold of the latest issue of Empire magazine featuring their cover story on next year’s Batman v Superman, including new details on Aquaman, Suicide Squad‘s connection to Batman, the state of Wayne Manor, Superman’s relationship with Lois Lane and more!

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Hugh Jackman wants to know what you want to see from his final performance as Wolverine! Following its debut during 20th Century’s Fox feature film presentation at Comic-Con International, early teaser art for the upcoming Untitled Wolverine Sequel has now officially been released by none othe

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Story of Kullervo will be released in an edition edited by Verlyn Flieger on 27th August this year. “The Story of Kullervo” was written by Tolkien in 1914 and was his own reworking and re-imagining of part of the tale of the Finnish saga Kalevala.

We got our first glimpse of the live action Attack On Titan movie back in March, and now, there’s a full trailer of the film on the web. It’s big, intense and very, very exciting to see. The film will be released in two parts: the first installment will hit theaters on August 1st.

Thursday, 16 July 2015

This Friday, Ant-Man comes out in theaters—and by our reckoning, it’s the 106th live-action superhero movie to see theatrical release. How will it measure up to that proud tradition? To help you place it in superhero history, here’s our ranking of all 105 superhero films to date.

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Forget Harrison Ford! We know who the real stars at Comic-Con are: the cosplayers. Every year, they show up and rock our worlds with their incredible creativity, design skills and deep appreciation for fan lore. Here’s a video roundup of the absolute best cosplay we saw at SDCC 2015.

Once again, Comic-Con was a massive Thunderdome in which entertainment properties entered...and only some of them left. Studios and creators battled to create buzz for their projects, and some triumphed. Here are the biggest winners and losers of Comic-Con 2015.

More than three decades after the original feature film was released in theaters, The Last Starfighter is coming back, this time to television. Variety reports today that Surreal.tv is teaming with The Last Starfighter screenwriter for a new show that will be titled “The Starfighter Chronicles.

DC dazzled Comic-Con with a humongous trailer for Batman v Superman, filled with superheroic action, our first look at Wonder Woman and Lex Luthor in action, and much more—but there were also plenty of little clues and hints about the movie woven in.

Private libraries are enjoying a renaissance, thanks to the specialist booksellers offering bibliophiles everything they need – from the shelves, to exquisite books that line them Not everyone who wants something new to read can satisfy their urge with a trip to

For years, Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman have been trying to get Hellboy 3 off the ground. But the hope fans had to see the sequel actually happen was delivered a crushing blow almost a year ago when del Toro said: “I don’t think it will happen. Creatively, I would love to make it.

Sunday, 5 July 2015

Few science fiction writers have divided opinion so widely as Robert A. Heinlein. Along with Asimov and Clarke, he was one of the trio of Golden Age authors who in the 40s took the genre out of the pulp arena into one of literary high seriousness.

Seriously, cut it out, publishers. Are you trying to ruin us? There are so many incredible books coming out this month, it’s unreal. China Mieville, Charles Stross, Austin Grossman, Jesse Ball, William T Vollmann... it’s all happening.

It’s a proven fact: Nicholas Cage can go with anything. The best thing so far, though? Nicholas Cage and Game of Thrones. Separately, they’re both pretty good, but together? Glorious. Brace yourselves: Cage is coming. Here’s some excellent examples of this brilliant idea:

Remember SyFy’s hilariously awful 2010 film Sharktopus, or its sequel, Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda? If you enjoyed those two, you’re in luck, because a third film is coming: Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf. Why wouldn’t this be a thing? It looks awesome, in every horrible, deliberate B-movie way.

Friday, 3 July 2015

Libraries are changing. The bookshelves are gone, resources are stored off-site and machines retrieve your request. You scan your own books at the checkout, and if you want to "ask a librarian" it's an online form or phone call.

Call it Santa Claus Year One if you want. Or even All Star Santa Claus. However you choose to describe Grant Morrison’s new Klaus comic for Boom Studios, chances are it won’t possible convey the insanity of the barbaric, bloodstained St.

The speculative fiction award season is underway, and results of one of the major awards, the Locus, has been announced at this weekend’s Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, Washington. After this year’s uproar over the Hugo Awards, it’s great to see a mix of excellent books get their due reward.

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige dropped a ton of Marvel news in a new interview, including several teases of specifically how Ant-Man will have an effect on Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which directors he’s met with for upcoming movies, recasting roles, Spider-Man and more.

Sioux Falls resident Allen Lewis has been a science fiction reader all his life, and he’s now donating his 18,000 volume-strong library to the University of Iowa. This comes just a couple of years after the University received a massive collection from James L.

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Really enjoyed this book; its depiction of a low-tech. dystopian future is chillingly realistic and presented as an all too likely consequence of current human endeavors, but is also secondary to immensely interesting characters an an en...